My Father's Friend
My Father’s Friend – Chapter 8

As soon as she stepped on the accelerator, the car following her also did so to such an extent that its bumper brushed the back of her car.

-What the f**k is wrong with this guy? -She frowns in frustration as she maneuvers the steering wheel, trying not to roll over.

Casey looks in the car’s side mirrors, but it was useless, she couldn’t get a detailed view of the car. Then, it was when he felt that his car was hit, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. If it really was that idiot Cauther, he was going to have a lot of problems with his father for that hit and run. The young woman began to slow down, and the car behind her followed suit. Soon, she tried to pull over. She intended to confront the stupid man once and for all, her subconscious complained.

She looked in the rearview mirror and noticed that the car stopped some distance from hers, Casey took off her seatbelt and pretended to get out, but then out of nowhere the car behind her hit her car ferociously, causing the black-haired woman to crash her forehead against the steering wheel, knocking her somewhat unconscious. After a few seconds, Casey lifts her face a little, seeing the highway blurred, then she feels a warm liquid coming down from her head until it crosses her eyes and ends up sliding down her cheek.

-What? -she asks herself in bewilderment.

Suddenly, the glass of her window is broken into thousands of pieces, she protects her face a little from the shards of glass, and that’s when she perceives a male figure removing the car lock to open the door. She did not understand what was happening, were they helping her? Her body was pulled out of the car in an ordinary manner, at which point she heard a cloth tear. She barely opened her eyes, noticing that she was walking away from her car, then she looked down and what she saw were her half naked legs being dragged along the asphalt.

Far behind him she had left her heel, and the other was still wedged in her foot. Casey forced herself to blink frantically wanting to wake up from what seemed to be a horrible nightmare, but when she was roughly shoved into another car she knew it wasn’t a dream. It was all real, she was being taken away.

-No, please,” she finally managed to say in a pleading tone.

-Someone orders, followed by a handkerchief covering her mouth and nose.

If he could see everything blurry before, with that horrible smell he could see worse. Soon, Casey could no longer see anything and everything had gone black around her. She closed her eyes, plunging into a deep, terrifying darkness.

Cauther did not lose sight as Casey’s car pulling away from the driveway. The red-haired man pulls a cigarette from his pocket and lights it, as he blows out the smoke, a semi-smile emerges from his lips.

-What an interesting woman! -And just at that moment, Rafael makes an appearance, arriving at his side.

-Cauther, have you seen my daughter?

-She’s gone,” he answers, inhaling again from his cigarette, as he watches the exit of the mansion through which Casey’s car could no longer be seen.

-Casey is spoiled, she is a child,” Cauther observes him out of the corner of his eye, he thought differently.

-I should go now, I only came because you asked me to, Rafael,” he decides to ignore his friend’s comment.

-Yes, thank you for coming.

Cauther walks to where his car was parked, immediately gets into it and starts it up following the same path Casey had left… several minutes of driving later, Cauther notices the red lights of a badly parked car on the side of the road. He slowed down a bit; everything was dark enough to see anything. So he wasn’t sure if someone was in an accident and walking there to get help.

But as Cauther passed by the side of the car, he immediately braked his car, as soon as he saw the model of the car. He immediately got out of the car and ran towards the car. As he approached the interior, he noticed that Casey was nowhere to be seen. He noticed that the car had a big dent in the back, the window was broken and the steering wheel was splattered with b***d.

-Casey! -he mumbled.

Then he looked at the ground detecting one of his shoes, he followed the direction of the shoe’s path, but couldn’t see anything… he took out his cell phone and shined the light on the road, just what he was thinking. There were black marks made by tires. Someone had hit Casey’s car from behind and ended up dragging her out of the car.

-Damn it, they’ve taken her,” she argues, clenching her fists.

He retraces his steps to get back inside his car, quickly dials a number on his cell phone followed by starting the car.

She wiggled back and forth, it was as if she was being carried on her back. Suddenly Casey felt a dreadful churning in her stomach that made her throw up in seconds, and that’s when she opened her eyes and realized that she was inches off the ground.

-Damn it, the stupid bitch threw up my f*****g pants,” the guy who was carrying her on his back shouted and immediately knocked her to the ground, causing her to crash her a*s against the hard concrete. Stupid bitch, how dare you throw up on me?

The man made an attempt to slap her, but a hand stopped him in mid-air. Casey quickly backed away, scared to death of her attacker and not understanding what was going on, why they wanted to hit her, why she was in such a dreary place, who were those guys, who were they? But above all, who the hell was she, she remembered absolutely nothing, neither how she got there, nor why they had her in that place.

-Don’t hit the animal commodity, if it has bruises its cost won’t be the same.

-The bitch threw up on me,” the furious man objected.

-I don’t give a shit about your f*****g pants, I don’t want you to hit this one. So go get the doctor, that head wound she’s got looks pretty bad.

-She just hit her head on the steering wheel, it’s nothing.

-GO GET THE DAMN DOCTOR! -he shouted in exasperation.

The man nods reluctantly, as he leaves, Otto looks back at the young black-haired girl. She was overcome with fear, but the terror she was showing made her look more appetizing. Surely they would pay a good fortune for a girl as well-groomed as she was, her class was showing. The man looked at her attire, she was not like the other girls, this one was of a very different class.

She was wearing some pretty shiny earrings, he doubted they were fake. Otto squatted down in front of her, but his approach made the girl even more frightened.

-Being afraid of me won’t save you from anything, you’d better get used to seeing my face.

-Where am I?

-What’s your name? -Casey looked at him, showing total confusion on his face. You’d better tell me what your name is, you don’t want to know what I usually do to make girls like you talk.

-I don’t… I don’t know,” she answers stammering, “I don’t know my name,” she adds while shedding several tears.

Otto senses that her words were legitimate, the girl had lost her memory. It was really a good blow that she had given herself, however, it was a good point in her favor. If she remembered nothing of her life, it would be easier to manipulate her. The man bites his lips, looking at those very shiny earrings. He moved a little closer to her and pulled them off.

-Ah!” Casey whimpers, whimpering even more.

-You won’t need them here.” He stands up, putting the earrings in his pockets, at that moment the doctor appears behind him.

-Otto…

-I’ll leave you alone with her, she has lost her memory.

He turns around and leaves the room with no bed or chairs… it was just a windowless room, more like a prison room. Casey, observes the new man who appeared at the entrance and feels even more afraid, since this guy was dressed as if he was a doctor.

-Don’t be afraid, I’m not going to hurt you.

-Who are you?

-I’m a doctor, I’ll just check that wound you have on your forehead.

-I don’t want to, I want to get out of here.” Casey refuses, backing up a little more, hitting her back against the wall.

-He approaches her so fast that he doesn’t allow her to escape anywhere.

-No, please don’t, let me go,” she says between crying, but without seeing what the doctor was doing to her until she feels a prick in her arm, followed by a dizziness and numbness. What did he do to me? -She looked at him with a frown as her body suddenly relaxed completely.

-Everything will be fine, relax,” she whispers, stroking his hair.

Everything started to go dark and her eyelids became so heavy that she couldn’t keep her eyes open. Casey was babbling nonsense words as she fell into the doctor’s arms completely unconscious.